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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Eishi Ibe, Shunsuke Uchida
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 4 | December 1983 | Pages 339-349
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18381
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A computer program package AQUARY has been developed for quantitative evaluation of concentration distributions of the radiolytic species in overall boiling water reactor primary systems. The hydrogen peroxide decomposition rate k, the gas release coefficient ϵ, and the accumulation of products through recirculation of the coolant were taken into consideration. The following relations were found: 1. Hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide concentrations in the core are substantially high, and the following relation holds in the core, 2[O2] = [H2] < [H2O2]. 2. The hydrogen peroxide concentration contributes markedly to the oxygen concentration at the water sampling stations in a plant. In particular, the following equation holds if k > 0.1 s-1, 2[O2] at the sampling station = [H2O2] at the core exit.